Makemake planet has no atmosphere as expected
The little planet Makemake has no atmosphere, this distant icy world revealed its secret for the first time.
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The little planet Makemake has no atmosphere, this distant icy world revealed its secret for the first time.
The meteorite belts are one of the ideal places in the Solar System that can find life, according to a newly published scientific hypothesis.
The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch an artificial satellite to study planets around stars near the sun in 2017.
A newly discovered comet may be one of the brightest objects in the night sky when it approaches Earth next year.
The US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said the probe Dawn was ready for the second mission, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit and study the dwarf planet Ceres…
After 35 years of operation in the universe, the Voyager 1 explorer ship of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) is slowly crossing the boundary of the solar system to enter a…
On August 30, from Cape Canavaral Air Base in Florida, the US Space Agency launched two satellites into orbit to probe the radiation belts and protect the Earth against…
The sun - the star in the solar system and the source of energy and natural light for the Earth. But few know exactly what constitutes the Sun.
According to the Daily Mail, while tracking and analyzing the movement of planets through stars on Kepler-30 - a sun-like star, scientists who participated in the Kepler…
German astronomers have found a planetary system with a solar system-like distribution, with rocky planets on the inside and gas planets on the outside.
After decades of conducting research and analysis of meteorite samples Allende once fell in the area of Chihuahua state, in northern Mexico in 1969, scientists discove…
Data from Voyager1 devices showed that the number of large charged particles collided with the ship increased sharply. This is a sign that Voyager 1 will soon fly into i…
Kuiper belt is made up of ice objects and lies just outside the orbit of Neptune. Rodney Gomes, an astronomer from the Brazilian National Observatory, said that with mod…
Using Hubble's telescope to study the atmospheric composition of four white dwarfs, astronomers from the University of Warwick (UK) discovered that most of the material…